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Regional Coordination Guidance Document for Smoke Management Programs

This document provides guidance for coordinating efforts to prevent and mitigate visibility impairment from burning activities across jurisdictions, involving regulators, burners, and stakeholders. It highlights shared elements, communication strategies, and examples of coordinated State & Tribal Smoke Management Programs.

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Regional Coordination Guidance Document for Smoke Management Programs

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  1. REGIONAL COORDINATION GUIDANCE DOCUMENTStatus Report Debra Wolfe November 30, 2005 WRAP FEJF Meeting Seattle, WA

  2. REGIONAL COORDINATION • §309 – required for state SMP • §308 – encouraged for state SMP • Tribes are encouraged to coordinate • Identified as integral element of ESMP

  3. RC TASK TEAM - RCTT • Formed December 2004 • Tasked with: • Proposing options for SMP inclusion • Identifying ways to facilitate communication between jurisdictions • Developing guidance

  4. RCTT MEMBERS Leader: Deb Wolfe Primary Participants: Julie Simpson Brian Finneran Chet Sargent Christi Gordon Dan Redline Darla Potter Darrel Johnston Bob Habeck Lisa Bye Suraj Ahuja Andrea Boyer

  5. RCTT MEETINGS • February 23-25, 2005 Salt Lake City • Initiate task, discuss scope • June 7-8, 2005 Denver • Review task • Identify shared SMP elements • September 27-29, 2005 Missoula • Identify complete range of SMP elements and functions

  6. RCTT GUIDANCE DOCUMENT Optional guidance document intended to facilitate efforts to prevent / mitigate visibility impairment in Class I areas from from planned and unplanned burning on an inter-jurisdictional basis.

  7. WHY COORDINATE? • Fire emissions affect visibility: • Smoke is regional phenomenon • Not limited by political boundaries • Need to work together to maximize results • FEJF develops various policies to inform state / tribal SMPs • FEJF ESMP Policy directs development of: • Policy guidelines • Technical tools

  8. WHY COORDINATE? – con’t. • Increase communication among affected jurisdictions • Provide burner predictability in managing multi-jurisdictional smoke effects • Move forward to further develop RFP measures together

  9. WHO PARTICIPATES? • Regulators • Burners • Federal • Municipal • State • Tribal • Agricultural

  10. WHAT TO COORDINATE? KEY SHARED SMP ELEMENTS • Location • Size • Burn Type • Fuel loading (tons per acre) • Burn date

  11. WHEN TO COORDINATE? • Prior to ignition • Facilitates planning • Instituting voluntary or involuntary restrictions • As burn proceeds • Ensure visibility effects are minimized if conditions change • After burn • Archive data • Assess activity (in terms of RFP)

  12. WHERE TO COORDINATE? In any area subject to planned or unplanned burning that may affect visibility in any mandatory class I federal area, whether or not such class I area is in the same jurisdiction as the burn location.

  13. HOW TO COORDINATE EXAMPLE COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES: • Regulatory and nonregulatory measures to control smoke • Meteorological forecasting • Centralized database • Public outreach & education • Modeling planned burns

  14. HOW TO COORDINATE – con’t. • Archiving data • Post-burn evaluations • Quantify RFP • Respond jointly to public complaint • Conduct joint enforcement • Implement burner and regulator training

  15. EXAMPLE STATE & TRIBAL SMPs • MT / ID State Airshed Group • AZ White Mountain Zone • NM State Smoke Mgmt Program • CA Wildland Fire Use Coordination and Communication Protocol • OR Smoke Management Program • Nez Perce Tribe Smoke Mgmt Program • UT Smoke Management Program • WA

  16. SUMMARY OF GUIDANCE DOCUMENT • Seeks to facilitate voluntary burner / regulator communication • Success depends on integration of guidance into other FEJF efforts to reduce anthropogenic fire emissions

  17. INTEGRATIVE PROCESS FIRE TRACKING SYSTEM WORK PLAN - “Elements for regional coordination should be contained within the system” - “Real time data import and export capabilities”

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